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3.00 Credits
Focusing on the twentieth century, this interdisciplinary CORE I course involves a rigorous examination of literature as both commentary upon and the product of history, and a consideration of history as a matter of representation and interpretation. Though this is a chronological sequel to EN 216, that course is in no way prerequisite. Authors studied will include Hemingway, Hurston, Wright, Agee, and others both inside and outside the ?mainstream of American literature. Students will also read various historiographical texts and works of literary and cultural criticism. Fulfills a CORE I course requirement.
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3.00 Credits
This course is an introduction to the art of persuasive communication based on the study and application of rhetorical theory. This course will examine rhetoric from an historical perspective and explore the uses of rhetoric in mass media and contemporary culture. This course is designed to enhance the student’s ability to apply rhetorical principles to various forms of writing and speaking. This course is designed to help students improve their writing skills and would be beneficial to students in all majors.
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3.00 Credits
The major purpose of this course is to help you improve your creative writing skills. A secondary objective will be to provide you with greater technical control over your work and also help you develop your critical reading skills. By the end of the semester, I hope that you will have developed a keen, critical eye. Furthermore, I hope that you will begin to gain a sense of your own personal ?voice and a greater awareness of the subjects and styles that interest you the most. Finally, I hope you have fun and develop a supportive circle of creative writers with whom you feel comfortable sharing your work.
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3.00 Credits
This course critically examines English Renaissance literary texts (poetry, prose, drama), including Continental selections. Writers such as Shakespeare, Sidney, Spenser, Marlowe, Donne, Jonson, and Milton will be considered. Textual discussion is set against the sociohistoric background of the period: the invention of the printing press; the rise of humanistic learning; the religion and politics of the dominant culture; courtly patronage and literary self-fashioning; the movement from a Ptolemaic to a Copernican world view; and the impact of the New World’s discovery.
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3.00 Credits
The course is designed to introduce the student to the psychological insight, wit, and linguistic richness of Shakespeare’s history plays and comedies. The student will examine the history plays in relation to the Tudor conception of history, to the Elizabethan conception of monarchical rights and obligations, and to Shakespeare’s subordination of factuality to thematic clarity. The student will also study the comedies, examining Shakespeare’s adaptations of Greco-Roman comedies and seasonal myths, and exploring the ways that the comedies mark out a path to happiness and joyously reaffirm life.
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on Shakespeare’s tragedies (mainly from 1600 onward) and romances. The plays will be studied in the context of their classical and native inheritance; the rise of theaters; stage conditions and theatrical companies; the London life of Elizabethan and Jacobean theater-poets; and the social, political, and religious constraints encountered by 16th-and 17th century English dramatists. The dramas will be examined as literary and enacted texts, with consideration of provenance, publication, and performance; generic categories of tragedy and romance; dramatic design and thematic patterns; character role analysis; and Shakespeare’s power of development in the plays of his mature years.
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3.00 Credits
This course studies English literature (poetry, prose, drama) from the Restoration (1660-1700) to the later eighteenth century, including such writers as Dryden, Swift, Pope, Johnson, Addison, and Steele. Critical topics include the return to monarchy; the resurgence of the theater tradition; the Battle of the Books; the rise of journalism and the satiric temper; the literary patronage of London and Grub Street; the development of political parties (Tories, Whigs) in relation to class interests; the country-house and garden as rural retreat; the ascendancy of natural theology and its Deistic expression; the refinement of prose style and poetic meter/diction; the influence of classical and foreign literary genres and traditions; and the developing interest in Gothic entertainments and the aesthetic of the primitive and picturesque as incipient Romanticism.
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